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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Saw some ducks at the pond - they departed when I got within 200m... Saw a killdeer - it left when I took my tripod off my pack... Saw a splash when a frog jumped into the water and disappear (saw that a lot actually).

Luckily, some bugs showed up so the walk wasn't a total wash ;-)...

First the Mantis shots...

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DA* 300mm, f/10

DA* 300mm, f/8

DA* 300mm + Pentax-F 1.7x AF Adapter, equivalent f/22

Tamron SP 400mm + Pentax-F 1.7x AF Adapter, equivalent f/11

Now the Dragonfly...

Tamron SP 400mm + Pentax-F 1.7x AF Adapter, equivalent f/16

Tamron SP 400mm + Pentax-F 1.7x AF Adapter, equivalent f/16

DA* 300mm + Pentax-F 1.7x AF Adapter, equivalent f/14(I sure wish I had avoided the foreground blur on the right of this one)

I know the whole water droplet thing is cliché, but I love 'em, and anyway I think there's enough uniqueness in these (the "rainbokeh") to make 'em worth sharing... I was watering this plant (ok, I looked it up, it's Oxalis Triangularis - purple shamrock) and watching the water bead on the leaves and I thought, "I haven't shot this cliche lately..."

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it's got flowers too...

I noticed that from certain angles, the tiny droplets were refracting the light into tiny droplet rainbows - rainbokeh was born...